December 25, 2024

Congress cleared 40 candidates!

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The Himachal Herald, New Delhi

Himachal Congress’ state election committee today cleared names of candidates for about 40 of the 68 assembly segments at a crucial meeting held in Delhi today. Names of about 20 sitting MLAs are included in the list. Assembly election are scheduled for the month of November this year in the hill state.

Majority of the 19 members, besides all AICC secretaries and heads of all frontal organisations, attended the meeting chaired by Pradesh Congress Committee President Pratibha Singh. It was also attended by former union minister Anand Sharma, Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Mukesh Agnihotri and chairman of state campaign committee Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu. Sources said that shortlisting of names, especially where single person had applied for party ticket, was done after taking into account the regional and caste composition of each of these 40 assembly segments. Senior leaders did lobby for their supporters to be fielded in the elections but there was consensus on majority seats, barring some in Kangra and Mandi districts. A total of 1347 aspirants had applied for Congress tickets for the assembly polls.